Hope Laid Up for You in Heaven.
By Paul Baynes
If an Englishman should sojourn in France and had great treasure to receive, would he not choose rather to have it paid him at the Exchange in his own country than to have it there, far from his home, and stand to the hazard of transporting it? So it fareth with us: it is safer that our wealth should be paid us in heaven, our own country, than here where we are but strangers wayfaring for a season. This is a comfort against all present necessities which the saints know. Though an heir know much hardship, yet this doth stay him up. "Well," thinks he, "I shall come to my lands one day." Children will wear homely clothes more contentedly when they think they have better laid up in their mother's chests.